Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-19
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this
Great National Calamity


The year 1886 played sad havoc
with many prominent men of our
country.
Many of them died without warn
ing, passing away apparently in the
full flush of life.
Others were sick but a compare
lively short time. We turn to our
files and are astonished to find that
most of them died of apoplexy, of
paralysis, nervous prostration, of ma
lignant blood humor, of Bright's dis
ease, OF. heart disease, of kidney dis
ease, of rheumatism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our
prominent ,men die of these disor-
ders. Any journalist who watches the
telegraph reports, will be astonished
at the number of prominent victims
of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect
that the diseases that carried off so
many prominent men in 1886, are
really one disease, taking different
names according to the location of the
fatal effects.
When a valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The
cause of death of prominent men Gre
ates comment, especially when it can
be shown that one unsupported dis
ease carries off most of them, and yet
"vast numbers of ordinary men and
women die before their time every
year from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease,
paralysis, nervous prostration, pneu-
monia, rheumatism, and many cases
of consumption, would never be
known. This uric acid, we are told,
is the waste of the system, and it is
the duty of the kidneys to remove
this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the
uric, kidney, acid is kept out of the
blood, and these sudden and univer-
sal diseases caused by uric acid will,
IN a largo measure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known to the
public. We believe that Warmers
safe cure, of which so much has been
written, and so much talked ofby the
public generally, is now recognized
by impartial physicians and the pub
lie as the one specific for such dis
eases.
Because public attention has beer
directed to this great remedy by
means of advertising, some persons
have not believed in the remedy
We cannot see how Mr.. Warner coult
Immediately benefit the public il
any other way, and his valuable
specific should not be condemned be
cause some nostrums have come be
fore the public in the same way, an.
more than that all doctors should b.
condemned because so many of then
are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opin
ions you hear on every side, of tina
great remedy, and public, opinion
thus based upon an actual experienc
has all the weight and importance q
absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uri
acid in the blood invites pneumoni
and rheumatism, and there is not
man who does not dread these mon
sters of disease but he need have n
fear of them we are told, if he ri
the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and ma
sound like an advertisement, and b
rejected as such by unthinking pee
pie, but we believe they are the trut
and as such should be spokenby ever
truth-IOVinp npUSnanpr